June 2018 - Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, with a large castle, a nice palace, and a lot of cute streets. We hiked up to Arthur's Seat to get a great view of the city, and stopped by to pay our respects to Dolly the Sheep and Adam Smith.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, with a large castle, a nice palace, and a lot of cute streets. We hiked up to Arthur's Seat to get a great view of the city, and stopped by to pay our respects to Dolly the Sheep and Adam Smith.
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| The Edinburgh castle from below. Pretty formidable! | Edinburgh castle gate | Inside the national war memorial |
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| Cousins in the honor rolls, KIA 100 years ago | A prison carving of a US flag, made by a captured American during the revolution | At the center of the castle, the national war memorial |
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| A great view of the surrounding area | ||
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| The sun setting on Edinburgh | The Scott memorial | |
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| Edinburgh, from the top of the Scott memorial | An invisible hand on Adam Smith's tomb | |
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| Remarkably not a church - it's "the hub" | ||
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| St. Giles Cathedral | Carvings above the door | Holyrood palace |
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| The front door | Quite the courtyard lawn! | |
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| The ruined Holyrood abbey | ||
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| Army soldiers getting ready for the Queen's arrival a few days later (including a bagpiper in the back) | A bit of Greek atmosphere in Edinburgh | Walls tiled with seashells at the botanical garden |
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| And all sizes of pinecones for ceiling design | Now that's a hedge! | |
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| A small and relatively young grove of California Redwoods | Arthur's Seat, rising above the city | |
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| Nearly at the top | The peak of Arthur's Seat | The view from the top |
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| A song thrush | A peregrine falcon family: The female | |
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| The male | And the toddler! | Dolly the Sheep, now in the museum |